Soups with cereals: interesting recipes and cooking methods

Soups with cereals are an ideal outlet for those who like to eat tasty and hearty meals. They are so diverse that anyone can choose for themselves the most suitable option.

For diet food

Many do not even suspect that soups with cereals can be very useful for the human body. In this case, we are talking about a special category of first courses. They are called "slimy soups." These dishes belong to the category of diet, which in itself speaks of their unique properties. Such unusual soups with cereals very gently affect the inner walls of the stomach and intestines, thereby creating favorable conditions for digestion in general. Doctors advise using them for different groups of people:

• small children;
• To old people;
• those who monitor their weight and want to lose weight.

Cooking such soups with cereals is easy. This procedure is a little time-consuming, but the result justifies such costs. For example, to prepare a mucous soup, you may need: for 40 grams of oatmeal, 1 cup of milk and plain water, ½ raw egg yolk, 10 grams of butter and 4 grams of sugar.

Cooking Method:

1. Pour oatmeal into a pot of boiling water and cook it over low heat for an hour.
2. Strain the resulting broth carefully using a simple gauze or sieve. The remaining cereals should not be squeezed.
3. Pour the broth into the same pan and bring to a boil again.
4. Stir the yolk thoroughly with milk, and then slowly introduce this mixture into the soup.
5. To taste, add a little salt and, if necessary, sugar.

To prepare such soups, you can use ready-made broth instead of water. This will make the dish even tastier and more aromatic.

Famous pickle

There are dishes that are familiar to almost everyone since childhood. Who didn’t have my mom preparing a delicious pickle with juicy pickles? Many people have long remembered its unique taste and incomparable aroma. True, each housewife cooks it in his own way. For a good example, you should carefully consider the pickle recipe with pearl barley and cucumbers. The following ingredients are used in the work: meat with a bone (for broth), potatoes, barley, carrots, onions, tomato paste (or ketchup), pickles (or pickled), spices (bay leaf, salt, black pepper, dill and parsley )

The soup preparation process includes the following steps:

1. First, prepare the broth. To do this, put the meat in a pan with cold water and put it on the stove. After boiling the liquid, the flame can be made smaller.
2. Pour barley into boiling broth and cook it for an hour and a half.
3. During this time, the meat has time to cook. It must be removed with a slotted spoon, freed from the bones and, having divided into pieces, sent back to the pan.
4. As soon as the barley is almost ready, add peeled and diced potatoes.
5. Now you can start refueling. To do this, you need onions, carrots and pickles. Products must first be washed. After that, they should be peeled and chopped: onions and cucumbers - in cubes, and carrots - on a grater.
6. Heat the oil well in a pan.
7. Passer onion with carrots in it.
8. Add cucumbers and stew a little mixture.
9. Introduce the paste and let the food boil for 2-3 minutes.

10. Once the potatoes are ready, the frying can be added to the pan.

11. A few minutes after removing the sample, add spices and herbs if necessary.

The recipe for pickle with pearl barley and cucumbers is extremely simple. In the old days in Russia such a soup was considered a "dish for the poor." But a little later its representatives even appreciated its unique taste.

Quick and easy

Any culinary specialist can confirm that with cereal soup becomes more high-calorie, healthy and nutritious. No wonder experts advise everyone to include such a dish in their daily diet. To prepare a regular potato soup with cereal, you may need the following components: one and a half liters of broth (chicken, mushroom, pork or beef) bay leaf, a pair of black pepper peas, salt, 0.9 kilograms of potatoes, 150 grams of cereal (oat, pearl barley, millet, rice or barley), 125 grams of carrot and onion, 35 grams of parsley root, 25 grams of vegetable oil (or other fat) and 200 grams of any meat.

The cooking technology of such a dish is extremely simple:

1. Boil the cereals separately. In the case of rice or semolina this is not required.
2. Peel and dice potatoes.
3. Strain chopped onions, parsley and carrots.
4. Boil the broth, and then add cooked cereal, potatoes, frying and spices to it.
5. Cook for 25 minutes over medium heat.

Before serving, it is good to add fresh chopped greens to such a soup.

Feast of taste

There is one interesting recipe, according to which you can cook a wonderful vegetable soup with cereal. For work, you will need the following products: for 2 liters of vegetable (or plain water) broth 200 grams of cabbage and the same amount of rice, 1 onion, carrots, 3 potatoes, bell pepper pod, 2 tomatoes, 35 grams of vegetable oil, salt, 25 grams of fresh herbs and a little ground pepper.

The dish is prepared as follows:

1. Rice must be thoroughly rinsed first.
2. Chop the cabbage, and cut the remaining vegetables into small cubes.
3. Fry onions, carrots and sweet peppers in boiling oil in a pan.
4. Boil the cooked broth in advance, and then add still hot frying, cabbage and potatoes to it. The mixture should warm up gradually.
5. After boiling again, pour rice and put tomatoes.
6. Add spices to your taste.

The end of the process is determined by the readiness of vegetables. Krupa this time will also be enough. Such a soup does not need to be insisted. You can immediately pour it on plates and invite everyone to the table.